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Special Meetings. 



Arti<le N. — Special meetiugs of the Society may be held iit auy time or at any 

 place, tho time aiul the place being ajiproved of and decided upon by the members 

 present at the time of the regular annual meeting. At neither any ordinary or 

 special meeting may business of the Society be transacted relative to the altering of 

 any of these by-laws or opposing the general tenor of the same. 



Br.\N(HE.S. 



Article 0. — Branches of the Society may be formed in any place within the 

 I'roviuce of British Columbia on written application to the Executive from at least 

 six persons resident in the locality. 



Article 10. — Each branch shall be required to pay to the parent branch $1 per 

 annum for each ijaying member on its list, aud shall be governed by the constitution 

 of the parent Societies, but shall have power to elect Its own officers aud form its 

 own bj'-laws. 



Officers. 



Article 11. — The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, two Vice- 

 Presidents, a Secnetary-Treasurer, an Assistant Secretary, and with these not fewer 

 than three and not more than five members to act as an Advisory Board. 



Alterations. 



Article 12. — These by-laws may be altered or amended only at the regular annual 

 meeting of the Society by the approving vote of three-fourths of the members. Such 

 alterations must be made by notice of motion, which shall have been sent to the 

 Secretary, and a cojjy of such be in the hands of the members at least one month 

 previous to the annual meeting. Written votes by members upon subjects about 

 which one month's notice has been giveu may be accepted by the Society at the 

 annual meeting in lieu of presence. 



The President: The next item on the progrannne will lie the presentation of 

 reports from the various districts. 



REPORT FROM THE VICTORIA DISTRICT: INSECT NOTES OF THE YEAR. 

 Bv E. H. Blackmore, Vktoiua. 



I notice that the yearly reports from the different districts generally relate to 

 the year's economic conditions, but, as I am a systematic and not an economic 

 entomologist, my report will have to be along the lines of the systematic collector, 

 and as there are some of these gentlemen present this morning, I hope it will not 

 be without some interest. I would like to mention here that during the past season 

 my occupation has taken up the whole of my evenings, leaving me the days free, so 

 that most of my observations and captures have been amongst the Diurnals and 

 day-flying moths. 



There were fewer insects on the wing than usual this season, some of our 

 commonest butterflies being very scarce, especially the first broods of P. rapw (the 

 couunon white), f. ampclos (the ringless ringlet), and E. hrlloidea (the purplish 

 copper). I'UjiilUi nitiiliis (the common tiger-swallowtail I and /'. ciirjiiiicOoii were 

 fairly common at Goldstream in mid-June, although /'. zulicuoii- was very scarce. 

 This is never a common species by any means ; in fact, I only observed two specimens 

 the whole sea.son. Aif/iinnin hrciiiitcrii (Bremner's silver-spotted fritillary) ami 

 .1. liiodope were not so plentiful as in former years, but, on the other hand, lirenthix 

 cpitlioic was fairly common. Eurymua uccUlcntulis (the yellow sulphur) was to be 

 obtained in early .Iiuie. but mo.stly only males, the females being very scarce, which 

 may account for the siiecies not being very iilentiful at auy time. Its orange con- 

 gener (E. ciiri/thrmc) was again absent, and I have not sii'U a siiecimen for two 



